Pictures From Life's Other Side chords by Grandpa Jones

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It's a picture
from life's other side
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Someone who fell by the way
A life has gone out with the tide
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Death may have been
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happy one day
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Some poor old mother at home
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is watching and waiting alone
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Just longing to hear
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from her loved one so dear
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It's a picture from life's other side
In the world's mighty
galleries of pictures
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Hang the scenes that are
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painted from life
Pictures of joy and of sorrow,
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pictures of peace and strife
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Pictures of youth and of beauty,
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old age and the blushing young bride
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All hang on the wall, but the saddest of all
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Is a picture from life's other side
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The first scene is that of a gambler
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Who lost all his money at play
Drew his dead mother's
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ring from his finger
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That she wore on her wedding day
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His last earth a treasure he staked it
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Bowed his head that his
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shame he might hide
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When they lifted his head
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they found he was dead
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It's a picture from life's other side
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It's a picture from life's
other side
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Someone who fell by the way
A life has gone out with the tide
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That may have been happy one day
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Some poor old mother at home
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Is watching and waiting alone
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Just longing to hear
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From her loved one so dear
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It's a picture from life's other side
The next scene is that of two brothers,
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whose paths in life different they led.
One was a living in luxury,
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while the other one
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begged for his bread.
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One dark night they met on the highway.
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Your money, your life, the thief cried
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Then he took with his knife
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his own brother's life
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It's a picture from life's
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other side
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The last scene is down by the river
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A heartbroken mother and babe
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The harbor lights, oh how they glitter
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On an outcast that
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no one will save
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Perhaps she was once a good woman,
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Someone's darling in pride.
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God help her, she leaps,
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There's no one to weep,
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It's a picture from life's other side.
It's a picture from life's other side,
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Someone who fell by the way.
A life has gone out with the tide
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That may have been happy one day
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Some poor old mother at home
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Is watching and waiting alone
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Just longing to hear
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From her loved one so dear
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It's a picture from life's other side
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